Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 08/30/2011 06:08 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	In the standard set of tools that are free and found on
> most Unix systems, which language such as perl, python, etc can
> handle rS-232 gracefully and do strings without having to
> reen vent the wheel?

I've used Perl and Win32::SerialPort to do instrumentation and control 
on Windows via RS-232 and RS-485.  For Linux, try Device::SerialPort:

    http://search.cpan.org/~cook/Device-SerialPort-1.04/SerialPort.pm


HTH,

David